[Dev] Patch to add a progress bar to the splash screen

[Alec Flett]

oops, just noticed this exception on my screen after startup (got about 
8-10 of them)

Alec

Exception in thread Thread-151:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/Users/alecf/tip/chandler/release/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/threading.py", 
line 442, in __bootstrap
    self.run()
  File 
"/Users/alecf/tip/chandler/release/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/threading.py", 
line 605, in run
    self.function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/Users/alecf/tip/chandler/application/Application.py", line 722, 
in updateGauge
    if self.timerTicks < self.workingTicks:
  File 
"/Users/alecf/tip/chandler/release/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx/_core.py", 
line 10728, in __getattr__
    raise PyDeadObjectError(self.attrStr % self._name)
PyDeadObjectError: The C++ part of the StartupSplash object has been 
deleted, attribute access no longer allowed.


Alec Flett wrote:

> I just tried this on mac - very slick!
> Works out of the box - I'll try to test this on linux tomorrow... but 
> this is worth trying to get into 0.5, it at least makes us look like 
> we're doing *something* more than just pegging the CPU while the 
> splashscreen is up.
>



> Alec
>
> Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've added a patch to bug 2052
>> (<http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2051>) which creates
>> a progress bar on the Chandler splash screen.
>>
>> I've only tested it on WinXP, if someone could test on OS X and Linux,
>> I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> To try it out, download
>> <http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=539&action=view>,
>> then from your osaf/chandler directory run:
>>
>> patch -nup0 < splashscreen.diff
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jeffrey
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